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Alex Norcliffe
Alex Norcliffe

Reputation: 2489

Is it possible to get TeamCity to stop & restart Amazon EC2 instances for build agents?

I have TeamCity (7.0.2) successfully spinning up an EC2 VM from a custom AMI, running our build, and sending back the build artifacts.

However, even when I used to do this with older TeamCity versions, I was always unhappy with the notion that it simply terminates the instances after they are done, and then creates new instances using the configured AMI next time a build agent is needed.

Can I get TeamCity to issue "stop" commands instead, followed by "start" commands? This has a tonne of advantages - quicker spin-up time, allowing for named instances in the agent stats, and saving the Mercurial clone to EBS for the next build are just three.

p.s. I guess I could use chained builds to call the EC2 API directly rather than use the in-built cloud support, but that sounds like a lot of work and feels flaky

Upvotes: 5

Views: 1306

Answers (1)

Eugene Petrenko
Eugene Petrenko

Reputation: 4982

We plan to provide support of EBS instances start stop in TeamCity 7.1 Please vote for TW-16419

TeamCity 7.0 may leak EBS volumes TW-12517

Upvotes: 5

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